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Release Announcements

An important part of a Fedora release is its announcement. The release team composes a release announcement sent on the day of the release.

Each local team is encouraged to write its own announcement in a way that makes the most sense for the local community. This is a namespace where regional and/or language-specific groups can work on their truly localized version of the release announcement for Fedora.

Past Release Announcements

Process

A small committee of Fedora writers, marketeers, and technical leaders draft and approve a final list of talking points .

A template is produced using structured text in plain ASCII. It includes a block at the top for the local content, then a complete amount of standard boilerplate.

To use the template, copy the content from the template page and paste in to a plain text editor so it removes all formatting from the HTML/wiki.

Any local group wanting to write a native-language Fedora release announcement needs to form a group of 2 or more collaborators.

Drafts can be worked on here on the Wiki , via direct email, or whatever method the collaborators choose.

The draft must be reviewed and approved by an independent reader of that language.

This needs to be someone from outside of the collaboration circle that wrote the draft

Any Fedora contributor who reads the language is an eligible editor.

Formal announcements are sent out to fedora-announce, fedora-list (either the main list or a language-specific one), via blogs, and into various support channels (#fedora, fedoraforum.org, fedoraunity.org et al, etc.), either international or local ones.

F10 Announcements Schedule

Strawman schedule to cover us just-in-case; needs to have longer lead times. quaid 03:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)